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title: Beat me no more!" cried he; "the spring of healing water is not very… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Beat me no more!" cried he; "the spring of healing water is not very far off!" Who acts: serpent, spring. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 46

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Beat me no more!" cried he; "the spring of healing water is not very far off!"

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**Who acts:** serpent, spring · **What happens:** beat, cry, heal, not be · **To what, where:** me, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, spring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:27:46
# text = Beat me no more!" cried he; "the spring of healing water is not very far off!"
1	Beat	beat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	off	off	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | serpent |  |  |  | spring |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **heal** | gerund | the spring *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | serpent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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